Marya Hornbacher

Marya Hornbacher was twenty-four when she was diagnosed with Type 1 rapid-cycle bipolar. She is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated national bestseller "'Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia"', a book that remains an intensely read classic, and of the acclaimed novel "'The Center of Winter"'. An award-winning journalist, she lectures nationally on eating disorders and writing lives with her husband in Minneapolis, Minnesota.